Georges Courteline
French dramatist and novelist
Herb Caen
American newspaper columnist
Herbert Eugene Caenwas a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes–“A continuous love letter to San Francisco”–appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
“The secret of Caen’s success”, wrote the editor of a rival publication, was:
his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day’s happenings.
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About the Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene Caenwas a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes–“A continuous love letter to San Francisco”–appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
“The secret of Caen’s success”, wrote the editor of a rival publication, was:
his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day’s happenings.
A special Pulitzer Prize called him the “voice and conscience” of San Francisco.
5 Quotes by Herb Caen
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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist